A Portland municipal bank could* Make affordable loans to small businesses, farmers, government entities, and students* Save taxpayers up to 50% on critical infrastructure like bridges and trains and schools * Eliminate billions in bank fees and money management fees for cities and states* Support a vibrant community banking sector * Enable sustainable prosperity

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both declared during the 2016 election that the system is rigged. But their ideas of what constitutes rigging are different. We agree with Bernie's concerns about the system, so we are paying attention to election integrity (fraudulent electronic vote counting), gerrymandering, voter suppression, attacks on the Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court decisions that reduce or eliminate limits on campaign contributions/expenditures, "dark money" and the influence of the electoral college. .

Moving forward on affordable, universal healthcare for all Oregonians﻿

In Corvallis and Ashland, voters agreed by approving ballot measures calling to the Oregon legislature to write legislation for universal affordable healhcare for all Oregon residents. In both cases, the vote was 74% in favor.

Nestle has proposed huge bottled water plant for Cascade Locks, OR. Alliance for Democracy opposes the project and supports the Local Water Alliance in their opposition. Their ballot measure which will prevent Nestle from operating in Hood River County where Cascade Locks is located will be voted on in the May 17, 2016 election

Giving Communities Tools to Strengthen Self-Governance and Control Corporate PowerThe Grassroots Institute: Progressive Solutions for the Common Good is part of a burgeoning international movement to confront our deteriorating political, economic and environmental systems. It looks at the systemic problems created by the power of money, which is ruining life as we know it, and the citizen-based solutions that are creating a vibrant future.

Our initial offering is a study guide for the Grassroots Solutions and Corporate Power course we have been teaching for three years. You can use that study guide:• To present the whole course in your community to educate and engage concerned citizens;• As a guide for a study group on corporations and democracy;• To educate an issue-oriented campaign on the systemic economic and political problems and solutions relevant to the central issues of the campaign;• As a personal study guide to understand the systemic economic and political problems and solutions around our most vexing environmental and social crises.​Go to the Grassroots Institute here.

Friends and Allies of ​Alliance for Democracy

Working for a universal health care system serving everyone in Oregon and the nation..Go to their website here.

Portland Jobs with Justice

Portland Jobs with Justice is a coalition of more than 100 labor organizations and community groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society.

The Oregon Fair Trade Campaign is a statewide grassroots organization committed to fighting for trade policy that creates quality jobs in Oregon while raising the standard to living in other countries.